Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley, 10th baronet (23 September 1801- 28 Aug 1875) was an English Whig and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1831 and 1868.

Bulkeley-Williams was born as Williams to Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet

Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet

Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1790 to 1830.Williams was the son of Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet and his wife Emma Rowland....

 and his wife Anne Lewis. In 1827 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Bulkeley on succeeding to the estates of Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley.

At the 1831 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1831

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 Williams-Bulkeley was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Beaumaris

Beaumaris (UK Parliament constituency)

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. In the reformed parliament he was elected at the 1832 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1832

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 as MP for Anglesey, and held the seat until 1837. He was elected as MP for Flint Burghs in 1841 and held the seat until 1847. He then stood again and was elected at Anglesey and held the seat until 1868. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire

Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire

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 from 7 March 1851 to 14 September 1866.

Williams-Bulkeley died at the age of 73.

Williams Bulkeley married Maria Frances Massey-Standley, daughter of Thomas Stanley Massey-Standley, on 30 August 1832. He was succeeded in the Baronetcy

Williams-Bulkeley Baronets

The Williams, later Williams-Bulkeley Baronetcy, of Penrhyn in the County of Caernarvon, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 17 June 1661 for Griffith Williams. He had already been granted a baronetcy by Oliver Cromwell in 1658. The second Baronet represented both ...

by his son Richard.

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